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Friday Ephemera (800)

January 16, 2026 81 Comments

For a second, I thought it was chicken. || Intriguing meat. || Less difficult than it seemed. || For whumping. || It weighs 60 tonnes and arrived 80,000 years ago. || They do this better than you would. || On heels at the beach. || “A less crazy candidate,” says she. || The 100 most spoken languages. || Mother of six. Also drunk. Also a moron. || Two cats, two theremins. || The wrong concerto. || How to aggravate wasps. || On who should be in charge. || She knows she’s pretty, you see. || A three-year project to see music. || Pounder. || Point well made. || Today’s word is parenting. || Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue. Previously. || And yet what I noticed was the finger pinch. || He, unlike you, has an autonomous flying umbrella. || Frozen dinner. || And finally, a notable display of vocal range.

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Academia Pronouns Or Else

Not A Load-Bearing Worldview

January 15, 2026 47 Comments

Or, An Expert Speaks.

In which a Senate hearing on drug safety takes a somewhat surreal turn:

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): “Can men get pregnant?”

Dr. Nisha Verma: “I’m not really sure what the goal of the question is.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO): “The goal is just to establish a biological reality… Can men get pregnant?”

Dr. Nisha Verma: “I take care of people with many… pic.twitter.com/decglkqHkX

— RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) January 14, 2026

What struck me was the claim by Dr Nisha Verma, our adjunct assistant professor and “person of science,” that she would be “more than happy to have a conversation” – i.e., regarding whether men can get pregnant – while suggesting quite strongly that this is not in fact the case.

Unless, presumably, Dr Verma were given total and unilateral control of what questions may be asked, and of how they may be asked, of what wording may be used, and of which aspects of reality may be mentioned during any such exchange, should one be permitted.

On grounds that direct, very simple questions, asked seemingly in vain, are “polarising” and thus to be avoided.

It seems to me that if your political worldview, and in-group social status, very much depend on shunning certain fairly obvious questions, exposure to which induces wobbling and an urgent need for word salad, then that worldview has some, shall we say, structural issues.

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Academia Food and Drink

Issues Of Earth-Rumbling Import

January 12, 2026 167 Comments

Meanwhile, at Boston University, enormous thoughts are being had:

“How is that different if you’re gay? How is that different if you’re non-binary? How is that different if you’re polyamorous?” she asked.

The she in question is Professor Megan Elias.

Oh, and she’s talking about food.

Obviously.

The question “what is queer food?” is, we’re told by Professor Elias, “a question that’s coming up a lot lately.” If only among academics desperate for an angle, an excuse for claiming a salary and wasting other people’s time. Academics much like Professor Elias.

Elias said she does not have a definition for what “queer food” is, but wants “recognition” it exists.

Welcome to the bleeding edge of human mental activity.

Quite how one can edit “an illustrated guide to queer food,” complete with recipes, as Professor Ilias has, while simultaneously being unable to define what such a thing is, should it exist, is a question I leave to the reader.

Though a review of said book does offer a clue:

What is queer food? Just like our community, it resists definition… It is a historical absence we honour through our imaginations. It is the food we cook to heal ourselves, and the food we cook for the people we love.

So “queer food,” it turns out, is not in fact a thing. It’s just whatever people who describe themselves as “queer” – a subset of insufferable misfits – happen to eat. While talking about themselves and how terribly “queer” they are.

Specifics of the professor’s course content are, as one might imagine, a little sketchy, beyond the obligatory claims of things being “disrupted” and “interrogated,” albeit in ways not altogether clear, or indeed convincing.

We are, however, informed that the credulous and self-absorbed will be invited to ponder what they might eat on a first date – because that’s totally worth those annual fees of $90,000 – and “how [their] food choice is representing [their] gender identity.”  Which is a thing that food should do, apparently.

Oh, and the aforementioned,

“How is that different if you’re gay? How is that different if you’re non-binary? How is that different if you’re polyamorous?”

On grounds that being, say, “polyamorous” – i.e., a neurotic slag – may, in ways unexplained, determine how much you like lasagne or carrots.

Such is the sophistication of our times.

Those so inclined – and with nothing better to do – are welcome to reflect on yesterday’s dinner, or this morning’s breakfast, and then explain to the rest of the class how those foodstuffs “represent” your “gender identity.”

I’ll award points for contrivance.

Readers may recall our adventures in “queered” history, which is like history, but less so. And, as above, much more self-involved.

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Friday Ephemera (799)

January 9, 2026 166 Comments

Some stability issues. || Sea bunnies. || Today’s word is breakdancing. || Senator invokes the biology of make-believe. || It’s absolutely essential, says she. || It’s a pull-and-blow kind of thing. || A collection of found cassette tapes (of variable quality). (h/t, Things) || Ah, simpler times. || Sprite, Australia. || As a lifestyle influencer, she likes looking at herself. || Just add flesh. || A gallery of strange phenomena. || He gives relationship advice. || “A different relationship to property,” says she. || Scenes from the Las Vegas Housekeeping Olympics. || A handy stick. || A history of English windmills, 1968. || When one just isn’t enough. || “We need help.” || Ill-equipped for the task of living. || PhDs. || Ice, hot copper. || Positioning of note. || For those long winter evenings. || Funny who you run into.

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Anthropology Pronouns Or Else The Thrill of Friction

He Was Drying Himself, But Quite Vigorously

January 5, 2026 147 Comments

Remember that thing, the thing that never happens?

Well, by now you know the drill:

⚠️GRAPHIC⚠️

Man pretending to be a woman caught m*sturbating in the women’s bathroom with women present

“I’m allowed to be in here… I’m a transgender.” https://t.co/gBdrwePPGd

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) January 5, 2026

Or, How dare you bigots object to his incongruous masturbation in the women’s bathroom?

The young lady unnerved by this exercise in suspiciously vigorous towelling recounts her experience here:

At the end of the day, whether you’re transgender or not, you should not be stroking your shit in the women’s bathroom.

One might think this would be an uncontroversial point. A statement of the obvious, or formerly obvious. Readers will, however, note the inertness of the staff, at a Planet Fitness gym in Concord, California, and the young lady’s air of resignation, of futility, as if her experience were merely something to which she, and by extension all women, are expected to become accustomed.

In this thrilling age of progress.

Readers may recall our previous adventures in the super-inclusive bathrooms of Planet Fitness, where a “climate of understanding” and being “judgement-free” are the highest conceivable goals, and where perverts gleefully expose themselves to fifteen-year-old girls:

In short, then, female customers who perceive incongruity, discomfort, and possibly danger should simply ignore those perceptions. Danger, it seems, is something one can now just pretend away…

You see, in the progressive pecking order, the fantasies of sexually dysmorphic men – and the preferences of male sex offenders – are of much greater importance than any “discomfort” felt by the women and girls on whom the former groups choose to impose themselves.

Women and girls whose role, it seems, is merely to understand and tacitly affirm. To be reluctant accessories to some strange man’s psychodrama, while remaining free of judgement. Which is frowned upon.

“Staff,” we’re told, “also promised to warn him not to expose himself to other people.”

Because the modern, not-at-all-insane response to repeated acts of indecency and sexual intimidation – by a predatory man in the women’s changing rooms – is to ask him not to keep waving his erection at women and children. On grounds that what he’s waving could somehow be a lady’s penis. Such is the sophistication of our times.

So, ladies. Or actual ladies, I should say. Are you feeling all that sensitivity and progress, that rush towards utopia?

Update, via the comments, which you’re reading, of course:

Mags adds, not unreasonably,

We used to know what these men are.

Prompting this from Dicentra,

At this point, I think we ALL probably still do, but Our Betters are thrilled at the idea of humiliating normie women. Seriously. What other explanation is there?

To which Daniel Ream replies:

It’s overwhelmingly women who voted for this, and (still) overwhelmingly women who bully other women into going along with it. All so they can show that they have only the most fashionable opinions, dahling.

Quite.

If an illustration is needed, let’s not forget the saga of Mr David “Sasha” Yates, a cross-dressing high-school sports coach with an interest in schoolgirls’ panties. And his immensely loud and righteous defenders, who were indeed overwhelmingly progressive women:

Mr Yates’ behaviour didn’t appear to concern the progressive ladies who rushed to his defence to ensure he kept his job after initial complaints. And thereby kept his access to the schoolgirls’ changing rooms, where a bewigged Mr Yates paraded around in his own bra and panties, much to the girls’ discomfort, and while asking those teenage girls about their underwear and menstrual cycles.

The same progressive ladies who denounced as “hate” and “transphobia” any expression of concern, and who elevated themselves with the airing of modish views, their ostentatious displays of inclusivity, while screwing over the schoolgirls being harassed by a cross-dressing creep. Because in the Progressive Pecking Order, expressing discomfort with sexual boundary violations is terribly low-status when the culprit is a man pretending to be a woman.

Readers will note the TV news interview linked in the post and its eye-widening implications:

To those of us less practised in progressive dissembling, the above would seem to translate as, “It’s okay for the teenage girls in our care to be creeped on repeatedly by a cross-dressing pervert, and consequently left feeling violated and upset, because we have guidance counsellors. And a box of tissues. Also, cross-dressing perverts are very fashionable right now.”

That these sentiments were expressed with great confidence – by a woman – and were left entirely unchallenged by the reporter – also a woman – is quite a thing. It does, I think, tell us something about progressive priorities and which groups are deemed of much less importance.

It’s hard to see any alternative reading of that exchange, or of the saga generally.

Our bewigged pervert, who boasts of an “exposure fetish,” was eventually, belatedly, obliged to seek employment elsewhere, following some further, shall we say, indiscretions:

Mr Yates’ homemade pornography – which he saw fit to send to a concerned parent, as one does – featured our burly cross-dresser using a kitchen sink as erotic apparatus, and while smoking methamphetamine and asking, coquettishly, “Am I a good meth whore?” A question that every parent hopes to hear from someone entrusted with the care of their children.

And so,

Mr Yates is currently seeking employment as a “transsexual escort.” “I am,” says he, “definitely interested in being pimped out to as many men as possible.”

Again, words that every parent longs to hear.

Whether the schoolgirls whose underwear so intrigued Mr Yates, or their parents, are likely to receive an apology from the school district, or from any of the progressive ladies who dismissed their concerns and accused them of bigotry, remains unclear.

Though readers are welcome to speculate.

Oh, and should a visual aid be helpful, I have just the thing:

Captures something, I think.

Update 2:

Commenter Svh adds,

That photo is hilarious.

There is something about it. Its fundamental ludicrousness. The gushing, the genteel throat clutching, the massive hands.

A snapshot for our times.

And all of that is before you learn the context. What it is that’s being applauded.

Note that Mr Yates refused to use the bathroom and changing facilities provided for his own exclusive use and instead insisted on parading his grotesqueness in front of the captive schoolgirls. As one of the girls put it, his being “fully a man.” That’s what he wanted – to harass and intimidate girls. Children. To make them feel unnerved and dominated.

And the progressive ladies applauded him. For his bravery.

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